Re: CL package serious deficiencies

From:

Richard Stallman

Subject:

Re: CL package serious deficiencies

Date:

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:28:57 -0500

The latest objection is that dumping CL would Emacs would increase the
size of the printed and bound Emacs Lisp Reference Manual from the
FSF. I find this objection unconvincing because it applies to _any_
new feature, and I don't think we're against adding new features to Emacs.
The point is that it would make the CL functions part of the standard
Emacs namespace. That has two problems:
* CL is ugly. It is not well integrated with the rest of Emacs Lisp.
* We would have to document the CL functions in the manual, which is a
big increase in the size. It is not that that is totally intolerable,
it's that the benefit is not worth the burden.
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